My understanding is that what's remarkable is their ability to survive immersion in very cold water without suffering brain damage from hypoxia, and that this is due to their posession of a "dive reflex" which drastically reduces their metabolic rate when so immersed, enabling them to go much longer without oxygen before they start to suffer brain damage.
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